Inside a low-rise office building in Monterrey, Mexico, hundreds of workers sit in front of computer screens, processing insurance-claims data all day.
But since real-estate professionals tend to be salespeople at heart and the market for sales aces is growing, making a switch to sales roles in other, more robust industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and computer software, is usually possible, says Jay Hargis, founder and managing partner of Talent Insight Group, a human-resources consulting firm.
The evidence is equally clear that computer-using industries like finance, insurance, real-estate and other services have continued to lag in productivity growth.
His firm, and others like it, are starting to turn out computer models that can estimate for an insurance company the cost of a storm even before it happens.
Officials should be aware that in the past several years insurance companies have begun to market specific computer policies that may provide first and third-party coverage for losses associated with cyber incidents, such as costs for data restoration, crisis response, privacy notification and forensic investigation, as well as defense and indemnification arising out of cyber incidents, and business interruption.
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He parlayed a computer leasing business into a 150-year-old insurance company, and in 1969, when he was still in his 20s, made a bid for Chemical Bank, then the sixth-largest commercial bank in the nation.
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Mr Schneier predicts that insurance companies will start to specify what kinds of computer equipment companies should use, or charge lower premiums to insure more secure operating systems or hardware.
Fellow iReporter Joe Machos, a data processor at an insurance company at the time (not unlike one of the computer programs in the movie), saw the movie on opening day, July 9, 1982.
To take one example, an ObamaCare-mandated update to a major computer network called the System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing, which governs insurance approvals, has been delayed by months.
The companies taking their insurers to court argue that the insurance industry lobbied actively for extensive preparations to avoid being bitten by the computer bug.
The core processing systems of insurance companies, airlines and banks, for instance, are built on a mainframe-computer technology that celebrated its 40th anniversary this year.
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